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Reading Comprehension Exercises

The document provides exam tips for different types of reading comprehension questions. For reading comprehension exercises, the tips are to paraphrase the text to answer questions and avoid copying text verbatim or including personal opinions. For true/false statements, the tips are to carefully read the statement and relevant text, ensuring the meanings fully match rather than just containing similar words. For vocabulary exercises, the tips include considering the part of speech and context to determine word meanings, using prefixes and substituting synonyms in sentences.

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Reading Comprehension Exercises

The document provides exam tips for different types of reading comprehension questions. For reading comprehension exercises, the tips are to paraphrase the text to answer questions and avoid copying text verbatim or including personal opinions. For true/false statements, the tips are to carefully read the statement and relevant text, ensuring the meanings fully match rather than just containing similar words. For vocabulary exercises, the tips include considering the part of speech and context to determine word meanings, using prefixes and substituting synonyms in sentences.

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Exam Tips and Strategies M.E.

Machado Ruiz

Reading Comprehension Exercises (4 points)


Justifying your answer in your own words (3 points: 1 per answer)
Dos
• Paraphrase the part of the text that gives you the answer.
• Find alternatives for all phrases, e.g., change I strongly oppose ... to the writer says she is totally against .
Don’ts
• Don’t copy entire sentences or clauses from the text. You can copy individual words if you can’t find a
synonym for them.
• Don’t use your own opinions or information not in the text in your answer.

Answering true / false statements (1 point: 0,5 per answer)


Dos
• Skim through the questions. Then read the text through carefully once. This will help you to locate the
answers in the text later on.
• Read the true / false statement carefully and underline the key words or phrases.
• Find the relevant part of the text and underline key words or phrases there.
• Decide if the part of the text is the same as the statement (true) or different (false).
• Check the exam question to see how you have to justify your answers.
• You may need to quote from the text or use your own words.
Don’ts
• Don’t immediately assume that the text and the statement mean the same just because they contain
similar words. The overall meaning must match as well as the key words.

Use of English : Vocabulary Exercises (1 point: 0,25 per answer)


Matching words from the text with their synonyms
• Look at the word in the text. What part of speech is it – a noun, an adjective, an adverb, etc.,? Use the
word ending (-ed, -ing, etc.,) and its position in the sentence to help you decide.
• Try and work out the meaning of the word using the context. Linking words may often provide clues, e.g.:
Although Jim’s job application was accepted, Pete’s was rejected.
The use of although suggests a contrast between the two clauses. You can now work out that rejected
means ‘not accepted’.
• If the word has a prefix use this to help work out its meaning.
• Look at the list of synonyms and identify a word with the same part of speech and a similar meaning.
Again, use suffixes and prefixes to help you.
• If in doubt, try substituting the synonym for the word in the text. If it doesn’t change the meaning of the
sentence, you’ve found the right synonym.

Finding synonyms in the text


• Look at the synonyms. If you don’t know the meanings, think of words which look similar in your own
language or similar words in English. Use prefixes to help you.
• Make sure you know the part of speech of the word. Use word endings to help you.
• The examiners may indicate in which paragraph or set of lines (e.g., lines 1–12) a word can be found. If
they don’t, the words are likely to be in order.
• If a word in the list has more than one part of speech (e.g., work can be both a noun and a verb), the
examiner will normally indicate which part of speech you need to look for, e.g.:
1 work (noun)
2 work (verb)
• If in doubt, try substituting the synonym for the word in the text.

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